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On Creepy Knowledge

Loyola University researchers created an artificial neural network that is able to predict (at a 90 percent probability) if death row inmates will get executed or not. Most significant factors were gender and school education, so if you're a dumb male you better change something! But the creepy part is that there's a piece of software able to predict one's future. Though the death row of a prison is a somewhat reduced world, it seems to me that further predictions about more important life issues will be possible in mid-future and that you might get a prognosis that you will not necessarily like and that might be nonetheless true. (Source)

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Now that is scary...This is one time where the commandment 'Though shalt not Judge' is preferable to Internel Advice, n'est-ce pas?

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Je ne sais pas! :-) Pretty scary, indeed! Maybe it's just a matter of time when collected user data of various Internet sources (Amazon, eBay and the like) will be taken into account to help you make a decision. Think about a digital "I Ging" à la Web 2.0. Ooops, now the idea's out!

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